March 7, 2025 Professor Parkinson was so right. In the 1950s, a mild-mannered British naval historian named Cyril Northcote Parkinson stuck a devastating blow against bureaucracy. His crucial analysis is even truer today than when The Economist published it in 1955. Work (in government) expands to fill available time for […]
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February 28, 2025 ‘Germans are either at your throat or at your feet,’ quipped old war lover Winston Churchill. Today, Germans are at our feet – an astounding 80 years after the end of World War II. Though mostly reunited, Germany remains an occupied nation reduced to second class status […]
February 21, 2025 President Donald Trump gets a lot of things wrong. Chief among them is his crazy plan to ethnically cleanse two million Palestinians from the smoking ruins of Gaza. But he also gets some very important things very right. Trump managed to end the longest war in US […]
